TY - BOOK AU - Remick,Elizabeth J. TI - Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937 SN - 9780804790833 AV - HQ250 U1 - 363.4/40951 PY - 2014/// CY - Redwood City PB - Stanford University Press KW - Local government -- China -- History -- 20th century KW - Prostitution -- Government policy -- China -- History -- 20th century KW - Sex role -- China -- History -- 20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Prostitution, Gender, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century China -- Chapter 1: The Origins of China's Prostitution Regulation Regime -- Chapter 2: Hangzhou - The Light Regulatory Approach -- Chapter 3: Guangzhou - Revenue-Intensive Prostitution Regulation -- Chapter 4: Kunming - Coercion-Intensive Prostitution Regulation -- Chapter 5: The Jiliangsuo - Prostitute Rescue Institutions -- Epilogue: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index N2 - DRAFT (to be approved by sponsor):The book examines the history of regulated prostitution in twentieth-century China as a way to show how, in concrete, monetary terms, government officials' choices about gender and sexuality--what is acceptable behavior for women and men in these areas--can make local government bigger, more complex, wealthier, more powerful, or just the opposite UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1650362 ER -